NEW YORK — G-Star Raw’s fashion show for its fall 2009 collection, part of the Mercedes Benz Fall 2009 Fashion Week, was lit by Scharff Weisberg. The event was staged by Sightline Productions and Dizon Inc. in New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom. “Scharff Weisberg has done the G-Star show for two seasons,” said Gayle Dizon, of Dizon Inc. “Once again, it was a very productive collaboration between G-Star and the Scharff Weisberg team.”
A key challenge facing the crew was to get the complement of more than 100 moving lights up and running within a single day, without disrupting the house rig. “We quickly learned that there was no way to make it happen all in one day ‘as is,’” said Scharff Weisberg’s Andy Muller.
“Project managers John Healy and Erik Perry worked for weeks redrafting and reworking the plot to provide the flexibility everyone needed to pull off the show, keep the designers happy and minimize costs.”
By redrafting the truss rig, Scharff Weisberg was able to go into the Hammerstein “seamlessly and totally independent of any house rig,” Muller said. “That permitted us to have our rig up throughout the weekend while the Hammerstein opened for weekend business. That’s not an easy feat to achieve while keeping everyone happy.”
Scharff Weisberg’s rig was fully functional by the end of the load-in day, the company reported, noting that all nine universes and 106 moving lights worked without troubleshooting.
The main lighting rig for the G-Star show consisted of 93 Vari*Lite VL3500 framing spots, 13 Vari*Lite VL3500 washes, 12 Martin Atomic Strobes and three Robert Juliat 2.5K Aramis HMI followspots. Scharff Weisberg also supplied a Wholehog 3 with expansion wing and six Hog 3 DP200s for lighting control. The entire rig ran off of three 400A PD 48x20A L6-20 dimmer racks and nine universes of data.
In addition, the show’s hair and makeup used an array of ARRI 300, 1K and 2K HMIs, Chimeras and S4 Parnels on scissorclips and 60-inch double riser C-stands.
Erwin Rintjema was Sightline’s technical director for the event; Nancy Hagen Ethridge produced for Dizon Inc.
Scharff Weisberg’s Drew DeCorleto was the lighting crew chief, Phil Alfieri of Local One Stagehands was lighting head, and Barrett Hall and Jeff Wong lighting assistants.
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